Method of making shingles.



A. s. SPIEGEL.

METHOD OF MAKING SHlNGLES.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 9, i914. I 1 172 067 Patented Feb. 15,1916.

ALEXANDER S. SPIEGEL,

OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

METHOD OF MAKING SHINGLES,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Y 'Patented Feb. 15, 1916.

Application filed September 9, 1914. Serial No. 860,889.

' 4 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER S. SPIEGEL,

citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, Illinois, have invented certain new andgles are laid in series useful Improvements in Methods of Making Shingles, of which the following is a specification. I

My invention relates to a method or process for making shingles of the self spacing type whereby I am'enabled to produce the shingles very economically and rapidly without waste. In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 shows the form of shingle which I produce by my method. Fig-2 shows how the. shin-- upon a roof, and Fig. 3 shows the strips from which they are out. y my improved method I am enabled to produce a self spacing shingle quickly and cheaply, utilizing all of the material without any waste whatever.

As shown in Fig.3, I utilize a strip of double width approximately 16 inches wide, and'this I run through a suitable cutter so as to sever the strip on the line a, b, indi cated in Fig. 3, which it will be observed has parallel portions 0, connected bydiagonal cuts 03, and aft severed longitudinally along the line indicated, a lateral cut is made across the strip which produces two shingles for each cut, of

identical configuration, and these are uti-l lized as shown in Fig. 2.

What I claim is: A process for making shingles consisting er the strip has beenin taking a double shingle widthstrip, severing this strip into two equal similar parts having alternately directed complementary severed edges, said alternately. directed edges being in theshape of a truncated tri= angle, and then cutting the twostrips transversely by continuous transverse cuts through the middle of the projecting edges while in matching relation whereby similar shingles are formed.

' In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses. ALEXANDER s. SPIEGEL.

Witnesses:

C. ROYAL-SON,

D. P. MCCAULEY. 

